BUILDING THE FSQA SUITE
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-Building Linux:
- - cd into the xfstests directory and run make.
+- cd into the xfstests directory
+- install prerequisite packages
+ For example, for Ubuntu:
+ sudo apt-get install xfslibs-dev uuid-dev libtool-bin \
+ e2fsprogs automake gcc libuuid1 quota attr libattr1-dev make \
+ libacl1-dev libaio-dev xfsprogs libgdbm-dev gawk fio dbench \
+ uuid-runtime python sqlite3
+ For Fedora, RHEL, or CentOS:
+ yum install acl attr automake bc dbench dump e2fsprogs fio \
+ gawk gcc indent libtool lvm2 make psmisc quota sed \
+ xfsdump xfsprogs \
+ libacl-devel libattr-devel libaio-devel libuuid-devel \
+ xfsprogs-devel btrfs-progs-devel python sqlite
+ (Older distributions may require xfsprogs-qa-devel as well.)
+ (Note that for RHEL and CentOS, you may need the EPEL repo.)
+- run make
+- run make install
+- create fsgqa test user ("sudo useradd fsgqa")
+- create fsgqa group ("sudo groupadd fsgqa")
+- create 123456-fsgqa test user ("sudo useradd 123456-fsgqa")
-Building IRIX:
- - cd into the xfstests directory
- - set the ROOT and TOOLROOT env variables for IRIX appropriately
- - run ./make_irix
-
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USING THE FSQA SUITE
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-Preparing system for tests (IRIX and Linux):
+Preparing system for tests:
- compile XFS into your kernel or load XFS modules
- - install user tools including mkfs.xfs, xfs_db & xfs_bmap
- - If you wish to run the udf components of the suite install
- mkfs_udf and udf_db for IRIX and mkudffs for Linux. Also download and
- build the Philips UDF Verification Software from
- http://www.extra.research.philips.com/udf/, then copy the udf_test
+ - install administrative tools specific to the filesystem you wish to test
+ - If you wish to run the udf components of the suite install
+ mkudffs. Also download and build the Philips UDF Verification Software
+ from http://www.extra.research.philips.com/udf/, then copy the udf_test
binary to xfstests/src/. If you wish to disable UDF verification test
set the environment variable DISABLE_UDF_TEST to 1.
SCRATCH_DEV_POOL by xfstests script.
- setup your environment
+ Quick start:
+ - copy local.config.example to local.config and edit as needed
+ Or:
- setenv TEST_DEV "device containing TEST PARTITION"
- setenv TEST_DIR "mount point of TEST PARTITION"
- optionally:
- if TEST_LOGDEV and/or TEST_RTDEV, these will always be used.
- if SCRATCH_LOGDEV and/or SCRATCH_RTDEV, the USE_EXTERNAL
environment variable set to "yes" will enable their use.
- - or add a case to the switch in common.config assigning
+ - setenv DIFF_LENGTH "number of diff lines to print from a failed test",
+ by default 10, set to 0 to print the full diff
+ - setenv FSTYP "the filesystem you want to test", the filesystem
+ type is devised from the TEST_DEV device, but you may want to
+ override it; if unset, the default is 'xfs'
+ - setenv FSSTRESS_AVOID and/or FSX_AVOID, which contain options
+ added to the end of fsstresss and fsx invocations, respectively,
+ in case you wish to exclude certain operational modes from these
+ tests.
+ - set TEST_XFS_REPAIR_REBUILD=1 to have _check_xfs_filesystem
+ run xfs_repair -n to check the filesystem; xfs_repair to rebuild
+ metadata indexes; and xfs_repair -n (a third time) to check the
+ results of the rebuilding.
+ - xfs_scrub, if present, will always check the test and scratch
+ filesystems if they are still online at the end of the test.
+ It is no longer necessary to set TEST_XFS_SCRUB.
+ - setenv LOGWRITES_DEV to a block device to use for power fail
+ testing.
+ - setenv PERF_CONFIGNAME to a arbitrary string to be used for
+ identifying the test setup for running perf tests. This should
+ be different for each type of performance test you wish to run so
+ that relevant results are compared. For example 'spinningrust'
+ for configurations that use spinning disks and 'nvme' for tests
+ using nvme drives.
+
+ - or add a case to the switch in common/config assigning
these variables based on the hostname of your test
machine
- or add these variables to a file called local.config and keep that
- cd xfstests
- By default the tests suite will run xfs tests:
- - ./check 001 002 003 ... or you can explicitly run a filesystem:
- ./check -xfs [test(s)]
- - You can run a range of tests: ./check 067-078
+ - ./check '*/001' '*/002' '*/003'
+ - ./check '*/06?'
- Groups of tests maybe ran by: ./check -g [group(s)]
See the 'group' file for details on groups
- - for udf tests: ./check -udf [test(s)]
- Running all the udf tests: ./check -udf -g udf
- - for running nfs tests: ./check -nfs [test(s)]
- To randomize test order: ./check -r [test(s)]
+ - You can explicitly specify NFS/CIFS/OVERLAY, otherwise
+ the filesystem type will be autodetected from $TEST_DEV:
+ - for running nfs tests: ./check -nfs [test(s)]
+ - for running cifs/smb3 tests: ./check -cifs [test(s)]
+ - for overlay tests: ./check -overlay [test(s)]
+ The TEST and SCRATCH partitions should be pre-formatted
+ with another base fs, where the overlay dirs will be created
The check script tests the return value of each script, and
When developing a new test script keep the following things in
mind. All of the environment variables and shell procedures are
- available to the script once the "common.rc" file has been
+ available to the script once the "common/rc" file has been
sourced.
1. The tests are run from an arbitrary directory. If you want to
3. By default, tests are run as the same uid as the person
executing the control script "check" that runs the test scripts.
- If you need to be root, add a call to the shell procedure
- _need_to_be_root ... this will do nothing or exit with an
- error message depending on your current uid.
-
4. Some other useful shell procedures:
_get_fqdn - echo the host's fully qualified
_within_tolerance - fancy numerical "close enough is good
enough" filter for deterministic
output ... see comments in
- common.filter for an explanation
+ common/filter for an explanation
_filter_date - turn ctime(3) format dates into the
string DATE for deterministic
and the content of the NIS database
if it is likely to be present)
- 4. General recommendations, usage conventions, etc.:
+ 5. General recommendations, usage conventions, etc.:
- When the content of the password or group file is
required, get it using the _cat_passwd and _cat_group
functions, to ensure NIS information is included if NIS
- When calling getfacl in a test, pass the "-n" argument so
that numeric rather than symbolic identifiers are used in
the output.
+ - When creating a new test, it is possible to enter a custom name
+ for the file. Filenames are in form NNN-custom-name, where NNN
+ is automatically added by the ./new script as an unique ID,
+ and "custom-name" is the optional string entered into a prompt
+ in the ./new script. It can contain only alphanumeric characters
+ and dash. Note the "NNN-" part is added automatically.
Verified output:
- Each test script has a numerical name, e.g. 007, and an associated
+ Each test script has a name, e.g. 007, and an associated
verified output, e.g. 007.out.
It is important that the verified output is deterministic, and
- variable directory contents
- imprecise numbers, especially sizes and times
- Use the "remake" script to recreate the verified output for one
- or more tests.
-
Pass/failure:
The script "check" may be used to run one or more tests.
The recent pass/fail history is maintained in the file "check.log".
The elapsed time for the most recent pass for each test is kept
in "check.time".
+
+ The compare-failures script in tools/ may be used to compare failures
+ across multiple runs, given files containing stdout from those runs.
+
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